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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you think that DCPS would get its act together?  If yes, what was the basis for your optimism?  Fenty/Rhee might have pulled that one off eventually, but Gray and Bowser?

The school system may be improving, but I'm stating the obvious in noting that there haven't been high-performing by-right middle schools in Ward 6 since prior to Dc home rule.  No brainer that none are in the works.[/quote]

NP, but I did think that it was *possible* that Stuart-Hobson would improve sufficiently in the time from before my DD was conceived to when she entered 6th grade.  That's 12 years.  And I will say that it has improved somewhat, just not quite enough to make us choose it over our other options.  But it isn't crazy that someone would think that 12 years could have some impact. Hardy wasn't always how it is now, right?[/quote]

Unlike Hardy, SH's improvement has been bogged down by several highly problematic developments in the last decade.  The writing has been on the wall for slow progress for almost 12 years.

*The rise of BASIS, Latin and DCI/DCI feeder language immersion schools, creaming off most high SES in-boundary DCPS families by 7th grade.  No charters in Upper NW to draw away students from DCPS elementary schools. 
*Unstable and generally weak leadership at SH.  Three heads in five years, only one of them competent.  Hardy's leadership has been exceptional for a decade, meaning many great teachers hired and retained. 
*Staunch historic DCPS resistance to academic tracking outside math.  Unlike SH, Hardy has the in-boundary students to attract a critical mass of well-prepared high SES families to humanities classes.

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Teacher quality is really key. [b]I do know a lot of happy SH families[/b] though, and I have no reason to think they are lying. [/quote]

Right, oodles of families. Never mind that the % of white students is in the teens although at least 2/3 of the families with MS age children in the catchment area are white. That's like Hardy ten years ago. Do we have that long to wait for SH to take off with neighborhood families.  I guess, so if your kid's a baby. [/quote]

Well, I’m talking about the UMC (not just white) families that actually attended, obviously. If we were still IB for SH I’d be seriously considering it. [/quote]

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